 Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela The Colombian-US missile attack in Ecuador, the US 4th Fleet in the Caribbean, the US-backed secessionist push in the Venezuelan state of Zulia, the US-backed, illegal referendum by the rebel oligarchs in the state of Santa Cruz to secede from Bolivia, the threat by US Ambassador Brownfield (formerly in Venezuela, now in Colombia) to relocate the US air base in Manta to La Guajira on the Venezuelan border, the baseless media show of FARC laptops in an attempt to label Venezuela with "state sponsored terrorism" and on and on it goes. Axis of Logic writer-analyst, Ramón Santiago summed it up in his article last week: The US lines up its chess pieces to trigger the demise of the Bolivarian Revolution and achieve regional dominance.
Now we have a so-called US "counter-narcotics" plane invading Venezuelan airspace on Saturday. It was in fact a U.S. Navy war jet and it happened just two days after the US-backed Colombian funded troops crossed the border into Venezuela. The jet flew close to Venezuela's military base at the Venezuelan island of La Orchila and near the residence of President Chávez. La Orchila is also the island where President Chávez was taken and held prisoner during the failed, US-backed coup in 2002. This all adds up to one thing: a systematic strategy to bully, threaten and ultimately bring down the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Venezuelan Defence Minister Gustavo Rangel nailed it:
As we approach the critical Venezuelan regional elections in November, we can expect added layers to these manifold, invasive maneuvers. All this points to an attempt to suck Venezuela into a military response, giving the US pretext for military action against Venezuela. They are using the same threatening strategy in the Strait of Hormuz, in their lust for war with Iran. Given the history of the Bush administration, it is not difficult to imagine a plan for a U.S. military assault on Venezuela to be followed by UN Blue Helmets to "restore order", opening the way for eventual U.S. control of Venezuela's petroleum reserves. One of the sickening sidelines is that the small gang of U.S. funded opposition thugs in Venezuela would welcome such an invasion of their own country. The Bush regime may be foolish enough to think that they can do here what they did to the poor, defenseless Haitians in 2004. Neither, the Venezuelanos nor their Bolivarian neighbors will allow that to happen here. Should the Bush-Uribe regime be stupid enough to make such a move in Venezuela, they will learn what "losing situational awareness" really means. It will be another brick in their crumbling wall - a list of failures to defeat, not President Chávez, but the Venezuelan people. In Venezuela, they will be in for a fight that will make Iraq look like "the cakewalk" they thought it would be. They should be absolutely certain that Venezuelanos will not be welcoming them with flowers and their world-renown chocolates. © Copyright 2008 by AxisofLogic.com BIO AND ADDITIONAL ESSAYS BY LES BLOUGH
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